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As I understand it the defeat of KKK and associated terror in the 1870s was hard because of the difficulties in obtaining convictions from white southern juries.
Supposed the 14th Amendment had excluded ex rebels from serving in that capcity.
Could this have happened? If so would it have been a game changer?